Migration & Borders Digital delivers secure, integrated digital services that support the transformation of migration and border systems.
As a Lead Business Analyst, you will provide strategic leadership across complex, high-risk programmes, setting the analytical approach and assuring quality across teams. Acting as the senior analytical voice, you will work closely with programme leadership, policy and operational stakeholders in a highly complex and politically sensitive environment. You will shape and challenge policy intent, balance delivery, security, cost and risk trade-offs, and ensure solutions integrate effectively across organisational and system boundaries.
You will lead business analysis outcomes by defining problems, shaping scope and guiding teams toward clear, evidence-based conclusions. This includes working at a detailed technical level with a strong understanding of integrated systems, APIs and data flows, and the confidence to engage with development teams using JSON/XML message formats.
What you will do
- Defining, planning and leading Business Analysis delivery on significant assignments. This will include providing recommendation and rationale to programme/project leads to critically shape project scope and to the Principal Business Analyst to accurately and dynamically inform resource planning across the Profession.
- Working with the Head of Role to develop and embed clear and consistent Business Analysis standards, guidance and templates across the Profession.
- Understanding and defining the problem to be solved and ensuring strategic decision-making supports business outcomes as well as user needs.
- Planning and leading significant areas of Business Analysis delivery, leading the challenge and driving through to conclusions.
- Developing a specialist area and delivering coaching and mentoring to staff within this area to develop their Business Analysis and professional skillset, confidence and strategic thinking. Overseeing the work of other business analysts to ensure work is focused on the right solution to deliver business value.
- Advising the business around which metrics to put in place to ensure the product is adding business value and to identify service improvement opportunities.
- Modelling complex processes/procedures using established techniques with understanding of their purpose and importance.
What you will bring (Essential Skills)
- Building strong, strategic relationships with the ability to understand, empathise, negotiate and influence individuals and groups.
- Collaborating with user researchers and championing user research to focus on all users. Defining approaches to understand the user story.
- Recent experience of working in the delivery of technology.
- Strategic thinking skills with the ability to turn longer term goals and business outcomes into strategic and tactical solutions as required.
- Guiding your team to decide the best approach, helping them to visualise outcomes, prioritise work and agree minimum viable product.
- Eliciting requirements and needs and leading investigations and implementations of changes to programme scope.
Additional Information
Your CV and Personal Statement will both be assessed. Your Personal Statement should clearly evidence your experience against the essential skills, using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Make full use of the word count to create a comprehensive and compelling application. STAR – https://lnkd.in/gs8mx4WN
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Please note – 3+ years UK residency is typically required to be eligible for SC Clearance and unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.
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